How to make a greeting card out of one sheet of 8.5 X 11 paper in Pages?

Within the Pages templates for " cards and invitations " there does not seem to be any choice for a single folded card made on a single sheet of 8.5 X 11 paper. How is this possible ?

Mac Book Pro 2.16 GHz intel Core 2 Duo, 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 SDRAM, Mac OS X (10.4.11)

Posted on May 26, 2008 6:23 AM

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Dec 29, 2010 6:38 AM in response to Bic Ford

You can create your own template very easily. First, take a blank sheet of paper and fold it the way you want the card to be. Then write a word or two in the front and inside panels. Now unfold it and use this as a guide later.

Next, open a blank layout page and set it to either portrait or landscape, depending on how you oriented your blank guide. Go to View and Show Rulers. Click and hold in the top ruler and drag down a blue guideline to the center of the page. Do the same with the side ruler. You will now have four quadrants laid out. At this point you may save it as a template.

Using your blank sheet as a guide, insert text boxes and graphics in the appropriate quadrants. In the ones that will need to be upside down, go ahead and create it right side up and then select and rotate the elements using the Metrics Inspector. (Use the up pointing arrow in the bottom right corner,) If you should need to edit or make changes in it, it will flip back to normal when you double click it.

Hope this will work for you.

Walt

May 29, 2008 8:27 PM in response to Walt K

I followed your directions and chose a blank but was unable to divide the sheet after going to View and showing rulers. Only a top ruler shows. Whenever I Click and Hold the only thing that happens after moving the cursor down is a puff of smoke. There is no visible side ruler.
Up to now I have used Pages to make a card that simply folds 8.5" X 11 in half. I have to buy special 9" X 6" envelopes.
Is it possible this " folded card " can be done in MS Word ? Someone suggested this solution.
I have the MS Word suite on my Mac. I will try and get back to you.
Thanks

Dec 29, 2010 6:39 AM in response to Walt K

Yes
Finally I get the hang of it
Even both rulers appeared and I was able to drag in a picture
It's neat how the software can flip the type upside down but whenever I place the curser back inside the text box it flips the type around for me to make changes. The returns to upside down and fliped arrangement needed for the one sheet folded twice card format.
Thanks

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